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Parental Fears
Based on surveys Barnes collected, the top five worries of parents are, in order:
- Kidnapping
School snipers
Terrorists
Dangerous strangers
Drugs
But how do children really get hurt or killed?
- Car accidents
Homicide (usually committed by a person who knows the child, not a stranger)
Abuse
Suicide
Drowning
Why such a big discrepancy between worries and reality? Barnes says parents fixate on rare events because they internalize horrific stories they hear on the news or from a friend without stopping to think about the odds the same thing could happen to their children.
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